https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx History Condensed en-us 2019-10-17 19:19:18 UTC 2019-10-22 19:10:05 UTC hello@padlet.com 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/399242170 It is not one thing; it is a mix of many cultures, traditions, in reality, there isn't anyone that is american. It was a mixed pot from the start, we were all immigrants which means your either European, Asian, African, or Latinx. American is really not a people but a feeling, created by immigrants that wanted to be different, they we were willing to fight for their freedom, and that is what made them, 'American.']]> 2019-10-17 19:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/399242170 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/399242873 It started with the English Bill of Rights, which gave elected representatives power over the monarch: The Glorious Revolution. Then European thinkers began to claim that there was a natural law that applied to everyone that could be understood by reasoning. There were some thinkers that challenged the ideas that were supposed to be set in stone, few, but that was enough. This era was when Copernicus and Galileo claimed the sun was the center of our solar system, and when Newton claimed the force of gravity to hold everything. This was when Bacon invented the Scientific Method. This scientific revolution lead people to think reason is better than faith or religion, as I think as well. In France, philosophes opposed church leaders that opposed new scientific discoveries, and they spread their ideas through out the country. ]]> 2019-10-17 19:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/399242873 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/399243039 John Locke was a doctor, philosopher, and writer. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison all came to eventually discuss his ideas. 1690, he published his book, "Two Treaties of a Single Government. He stated that "the government should be based on natural law."  This law gives all people "the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to property." Locke believed the purpose of the government was to protect these rights. He believed if a ruler took away the peoples natural rights, they had the right to revolt and start a new government. Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution include some of his revolutionary ideas, nearly a century and a half later!]]> 2019-10-17 19:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/399243039 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400551126 There were many changes during the 18th century, such as the unity of Scotland and British in 1707, which made Britain the most powerful military power in the world. The American were able to produce raw resources such as tobacco, wheat, and lumber, and traded that for manufactured goods and spices. In the 1650's Britain passed what is known as the Navigation Acts, which stated that any goods from Britain sent to the America's should be taxed and that the ships in which cargo was shipped had to built in Britain and the crew had to be British as well. ]]> 2019-10-21 20:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400551126 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400555359 The majority of the children in the american colonies were taught to read and write by their parents at home. In the southern colonies, formal education was usually only for the children of large land owners and professionals, like lawyers and doctors. There were many plantations and farms in the southern area, making it very impractical to set up schools there, I am assuming that the government wanted to keep the schools in one area and farms in another. Those that did attend school or were taught by tutors only did so for about 2-3 months per year. By 1763, six colleges were already built, including Harvard and Yale.]]> 2019-10-21 20:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400555359 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400557823 Schools taught kids and books, the paper, and almanacs taught the adults. Because paper and type were expensive, many, if not all, books came from Britain. Almanacs were the main sources for information: they included a calendar, special dates such as holidays, advice for farming, poems, and news of the year.]]> 2019-10-21 20:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400557823 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400684948 Religion used to have a strong influence on the life of colonists. The Great Awakening took place in between the 1730's and 40's, which is a revival in which there was more religious and political freedom, mainly in the southern colonies. This created, or lead to more revolutionary and political ideas that paved the path to the independence of the Americas. ]]> 2019-10-22 04:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400684948 10473311 https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400686064 The Navigation Acts and the trading laws were accepted at first, but the colonists eventually came to resent, or hate the British restrictions. With a growing population, the colonists wanted to make their own manufactured goods. They also wanted to make more money, sell less for more (I mean it's business), which why they hated those laws, because they couldn't trade with other countries that were willing to pay more for their resources. This is a major event of the colonial era, and the path to the American Revolution is being further paved.]]> 2019-10-22 05:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/10473311/gq2hcdovrxx/wish/400686064